Railway-tie.



V I ALTITRNEYSI No. 828,479. PATBN'TED AUG. 14, 1906. c. s. HOWELL.RAILWAY TIE.

APPLIOATION FILED MAY1Z.'1906.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 14, 1906.

Application filed May 12,1906. Serial No. 816.543.

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Be it known that 1, CHARLES S. HOWELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Easton, in the county of Northampton and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Railway-Tie, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to metal railwayties, and has for its object toprovide a simply-constructed device of this character of increasedefficiency and utility and by means of which the rails may be gaged whenlaid upon the ties and the ties anchored in position in the tamping orbed.

With these and other objects in view, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is better understood, the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction, as hereinafter fully described andclaimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designating characters,is illustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the inventioncapable of carrying the same into practical operation.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of a portion of a railway-trackwith the improved ties in position beneath the rails. Fig. 2 is atransverse section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the arrangement shown inFigs. 1 and 2 being that employed upon straight portions of track. Fig.3is aplan view, and Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3,illustrating the arrangement employed when applied to tracks upon whichlateral strains are liable to occur for instance, upon curved lines oftrack. Figs. 5 is a perspective view, enlarged, viewed from above, ofone of the improved ties. a perspective view, enlarged, of one of theimproved ties viewed from beneath.

The improved tie is constructed of an ordinary I-beam (represented at10) of suitable strength, preferably about six inches high, more orless, and of the ordinary length of a tie, generally about eight feet.At the points where the rails 11 12 cross the ties, L- shaped clefts areformed therein and the portions released by the clefts bent upward, asat 13, to form clips for bearing against the tiefianges or bases of therails.

The clips will be so located that when the clips 13 are bent upwardlytherefrom they will be spaced apart equal to the distances between therails when placed thereon, and

Fig. 6 is the distances between the rails. By carefully bending theclips 13 and spacing them to fit the tie-flanges of the rails the gagingof the tracks by the ordinary means is dispensed with and thetrack-rails accurately spaced by disposing them with their tieflangesagainst the clips 13.

The ties will be arranged with the supporting-clips 13 extending in thesame direction, as shown in Figs. 1 and 5, and when employed uponstraight portions of the track, every alternate tie will preferably bearranged with the bearing-clips 13 upon the outer sides of rail 12 andthe inner sides of the rail 11 and the remaining ties arranged with theclips 13 bearing against the inner sides of the rail 12 and the outersides of the rail 11, so that the rails are firmly supported from bothsides.

Elongated clefts are formed in the lower webs of the ties upon oppositesides and preferably opposite the clips 13, and the portions 14 releasedby the clefts bent downwardly at an angle, as shown more clearly inFigs. 5 and 6, the angularly-disposed spurs 14 being preferably arrangedat reversed angles, as shown in Figs. 2, 4, and 6.

The spurs 14 are designed to be embedded in the tampin or bed in whichthe ties are supported, an thus effectually prevent longitudinalmovement of the ties and also effectually prevent lateral movementthereof or the creeping of the ties. When employed u on tracks which areliable to be subjecte to lateral strains-for instance, tracks used uponcurves and at switches and turnouts-additional clefts will be formed inthe upper webs of the ties and spaced from the clips 13, to providebraces, as at 15, for bending over the opposite sides of thetie-flanges, and thus support each rail at its opposite sides upon eachtie. is thus very materially increased and all tendency to lateralmovement effectually prevented.

The device is simple in construction, can be readily applied, andrequires no spikes or bolts or other similar holding means, the clips 13being amply sufficient when arranged in alternate order for straightportions of track, as shown in Fig. 1, or when supplemented by thebraces 15 when used u on tracks which are liable to be subjecte tolateral strains.

Havin thus described the invention, what is claime as new is thus serveas gaging means to determine l A metal railway-tie having means at theThe supportof the rail IIO upper sides for fastening the rails and with3 In testimony that I claim the foregoing as laterally-extending flangesat the lower sides, E my own I have hereto affixed my signature saidflanges having oppositely-extending lonl in the presence of twoWitnesses.

gitudinal clefts whereby tongues are released CHARLES S. HOWELL. andadapted to be bent in opposite directions and at reversed angles to thelongitudinal plane of the tie Witnesses:

WM. H. HOOKWAY, CHAS. B. BRUNER.

